Herbert Shaner Bucher ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: K2JW-NCS.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1900 Upper Salford Twp., Montogomery Co., PA, USA Upper Salford Twp., Montgomery, PA. ² J. K. Bucher, occupation "drover", 44, born Jan 1856, was married for 20 years to wife Esther, 39, Mar 1861. She had birthed 8 children, 6 alive in 1900. Living with them: Charles, 15, Jul 1884; Zephaniah, 11, Jan 1889; Herbert, 9, Nov 1890; and Ruth, 1, Jun 1899. Also: Eliza Shaner, mother-in-law, widowed, 79, Aug 1820, who had birthed one child. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1920 in Lower Salford Twp., Montgomery, PA. ⁶ The 1920 census recorded Herbert Bucher, 29, living with wife Edna, 26; Robert, 8; and Donald, 5. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

3. Book: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, A History: bio of Herbert Shamer Bucher, 1923. ¹
HERBERT SHAMER BUCHER- The entire business career of Herbert Shamer Bucher has been passed in the Harleysville National Bank, with which he became identified immediately after the completion of his education, the connection having remained unbroken to the present time, a period of more than thirteen years.

Born at Salford Station, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1890, son of Jacob and Esther (Shamer) Bucher, Mr. Bucher was the youngest of eight children, the seven older than he being: Isaac, Oliver, Harry, Zephaniah, Charles, Adam, Ruth.

Herbert Shamer Bucher received his education in the public schools of his native district and in the Norristown Business College, and at once began his association with the Harleysville National Bank, acting in the capacity of clerk, in 1909. During the thirteen years which have passed since that time he has maintained his connection with that financial institution, rendering notably efficient service in each of the various positions which, through one promotion after another, he has been called upon to fill. At the present time (1922) he is the much honored and fully trusted cashier of the Harleysville National Bank, and is well known throughout the community, not only as a safe and conservative business man, but as a worthy citizen and a highly esteemed associate. His religious connection is with the German Baptist church.


Herbert S. Bucher married, at Harleysville, on October 19, 1910, Edna C. Clemens, daughter of Manassas and Mary (Bean) Clemens, and they are the parents of three children, all born in Harleysville : Robert, Daniel, and Jacob.

4. Census in 1940 in Douglass Twp., Montgomery, PA. ⁷ The 1940 census recorded Herbert H. Bucher, 49, married, operator in a creamery, as a lodger in the household of Dianna Herb, widow, 67. In 1935 he was also renting in Montgomery county.

Herbert married Edna Bean Clemens, daughter of Manasses C. Clemens and Mary Bean, on 19 Oct 1910 in Harleysville, Montgomery, PA.¹ (Edna Bean Clemens was born on 19 Oct 1892 in , , PA,^{3 8} died on 1 Dec 1988 in Harleysville, Montgomery, PA ^{3 8} and was buried in Harleysville: Delps Cemetery, Montgomery, PA ⁸.)